Klansman in a sentence

I learned that Medgar Evers, the civil rights leader who was investigating the death of Emmett Till, was shot in the back by a Leflore County Klansman who, when I was in high school, still walked around in my hometown, free.

In 2002, a judge in Alabama ruled that former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry was mentally competent to stand trial on murder charges in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls.

The novel’s down-home cadences cloak its elaborate narrative circuitry, and McBride makes farcical use of the fear of newcomers held by white characters, such as the town’s physician, a Klansman.

Nor does it erase the fact that she, along with former Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, delivered praise and eulogies for former Dixie senator and Klansman leader Robert Byrd.

The bus was immediately set upon by a mob led by a local Klansman named William Chappell, its tires slashed and windows smashed.

Today, the name of a long-ago Confederate general and Klansman is now tied to the civil rights struggle forever.

We have confederates in Mendo, a Klansman in Boonville, a retired logger in Compotche who wants to hang liberals from all the trees and a nazi HQ in Colusa.

But, to them, racism is a Klansman in a movie.

Edgar Ray Killen, the former Ku Klux Klansman responsible for a notorious civil rights era murder, has died in a Mississippi prison.

Grew up in Fredneck, the actual redneck parts, where klansman marches thru town were an annual thing.

Stallworth proceeds to unleash a torrent of racist rhetoric that obviously leaves the stereotypical Klansman on the other end salivating at the mouth.

What’s a conversation on race w/o blaming Robert Byrd as a klansman.

A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman (2015).

For Selma, of all places, to have a big monument to a Klansman is totally unacceptable." citation An online petition at Change.org asking the City Council to ban the monument collected more than 285,000 signatures by mid-September.

Investigators in the 1920s used KKK publicity, court cases, exposés by disgruntled Klansman, newspaper reports, and speculation to write stories about what the Klan was doing.

Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawg, and Freedman.

The opposition organized, bribed a Klansman for the secret membership list, and exposed the Klansmen running in the state primaries; they defeated most of the candidates.